Comment on A 13-year-old is the first human to beat Tetris | Numerous theoretical milestones remain
psud@lemmy.world 8 months agoThis person did it by playing it until it crashed. There are several points where particular actions will crash the game.
I would argue though that to beat Tetris you would need to beat level 255, at which point the level counter wraps to level 0
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There was a 73% chance at the level it crashed that any single line clear would have caused it and the percentage only goes up from there. That is why there are theoretically more that could be accomplished since there is still a chance it won’t crash but is very unlikely.
psud@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I reckon completing level 255 isn’t going to happen for human players on the NES. They are pushing the input hardware beyond it’s design to play the levels they’re at now, and also crashes become more common at higher levels making a clean run to 255 even harder
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t underestimate the gaming community. Once people get more comfortable with reaching higher levels someone will develope a strategy.
Dogsnot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you look into it, the only limiting factor are the colour pallets glitching out, after level 29 it does t become any faster, but at a certain point the palates were causing hard points as one level named charcoal was barely visible.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
You somehow managed to write palette wrong twice in two different ways. I salute you.
prunerye@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
I disagree. I think it’s inevitable. They already have the final hundred levels mapped out, and there are long stretches that are completely safe. The challenge will be levels where you can’t take singles and also the levels where you have to push down on every piece, but compared to what’s already been accomplished, it’s only a matter of time.
darkpanda@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
There’s also one weird level that takes 800 lines to clear as opposed to the usual 10.
The trick to getting that high regardless will be making sure not to hit the conditions required for the kill screen to occur, like getting a single line on level 155 which didn’t happen here, and somehow making it past all of the potential kill screens to reach 255. I’m not knowledgable in the ways of NES Tetris to know if this is possible but I’m surely interested in finding out. I’ve read various analyses that say it’s theoretically possible and theoretically impossible so it would be nice to see something definitive.